iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 43m

Skydance Studios: You'll Believe A Ship Can Sink

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5h

Literally terrifying (also hilarious)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

TED LASSO and SLOW HORSES are both on Apple TV, and unless my entire childhood lied to me, that can only mean one thing. We're due for a very special crossover episode. Can't wait.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 4h

The people who run Alpha School should be in the same prison as Elizabeth Holmes.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 13h

Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this

My dad used to work with Ted Bundy at the University of Utah and every Friday my dad would say, "See ya Monday-Bundy" and I can't imagine how much Ted actually thought about murdering him for
it.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21h

a large number of you seem to hold the bizarre mystical woo woo idea that neural networks are identical to brains

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 17h

“We can do as many crimes as we want so long as we say it was software and pay for a few PACs” is an absolutely insane way to run a society.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next.

Twitter screenshot: New: Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19h

Hey, the great comic book writer (and pal of mine!) Saladin Ahmed is posting here again! Give him a follow!

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 22h

People need to understand the people leading the AI industry, transhumanist/longtermist/EA movements, and tech broadly, as died-in-the-wool pseudoscientists, denialists (climate change, the holocaust), and crank purveyors of conspiritualist woo of the highest order. The height of Rationalism.

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Noah Brand @noahbrand.bsky.social · 20h

I was raised by futurists, and... @davekarpf.bsky.social is right about this. Yudkowsky's emotional need for certainty means that he thinks futurism is about finding the RIGHT answer. Hence his proudly naming his goddamned site Less Wrong, and proceeding to pioneer new ways of being More Wrong.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22h

NYT has gained monopoly power in the American liberal economy. With no comparable competition, they can say “fine, good luck elsewhere” to nearly any person, idea, or story they want US liberalism’s ideas became more based in what NYT wants, not which ideas are strongest or best. Monopoly power!

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 21h

Look I knew these guys were astoundingly ignorant about how stuff actually gets made (and hence, how difficult it would be even for superintelligences to actually take over the world) but this “intelligence -> technology” is so stupid it hurtsss.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 21h

There's this one business school prof who keeps writing about how AI has basically mastered and rendered irrelevant all of the entrepreneurship lessons he teaches. I think he's right. But I also think that says something *very specific* about the pre-existing nature of his field.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 22h

This is what I’ve been trying to tell y’all about the broligarchs, effective altruists, longtermists and other assorted followers of the cult of AI. They legit believe they are building a computer god and/or a synthetic species that will replace people and conquer the stars. Yes it’s bonkers.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026

I don't think it's going to happen but MGP getting knocked off in an unholy blue wave year would be extremely hilarious

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 01/10/2026

I absolutely know who needs to hear this, though I won’t name names. Progressive orgs need to stop pretending that “AGI” and “x-risk” are ideas to take seriously. No one is building a computer god that could go rogue and turn us into paper clips.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

in order to help advance you all toward escape from the wheel of samsara, I would like to tell you that Aella has a new pro-natalist 'dating' service www.knockrup.com

knockrup.com

Knockr — Coming Soon · Knockr

Knockr — a directory of women looking for a donor to help them get pregnant, on their own terms.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

second guy from the right no, i am not back, i just couldn't not say this

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/09/2026

The peace Conan describes here is what I find so psychotic about Capitalism: The unnatural systemic need for more, growth, bigger, up, is constantly making people feel - mentally and financially - like where they’re at is not what success looks like, even if it’s exactly what makes them happy.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every single member of this administration sees themselves, first and foremost, as a Content Creator™ It's like they staffed an administration with homeschooled aliens who learned about humanity through mainlining TikTok accounts. Just unbelievable levels of sweaty dorkiness.

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smillz @righttwix.com · 30/09/2026

if you fall and your friends are concerned instead of laughing then you’re old now

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I also think about Elon saying Biden's DOJ wouldn't prosecute Sam Bankman-Fried because he was a Dem donor... followed by Biden's DOJ nailing SBF, who now posts about how awesome Trump is so he can get a pardon.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The gaps between job roles, job descriptions, and the work people actually do is pretty vast. I don’t mean the work that the procurement person who hires vendors does. I mean the work that people do across orgs.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 29/09/2026

These are not products of an effective design process. Instead of starting with a purpose and finding the best way to satisfy it they are starting with a behemoth existing material and desperately trying to find ways to make it useful. This is anti-design.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know I’m late with pop culture take, but: The Encore > Life of a Showgirl. (And it’s not even close.)

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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Surprised the signatures aren’t aligned to form a picture of a teenage girl

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jesus this is bleak. Just boilerplate “we, the undersigned CEOs, promise to try really really hard to only make good artificial super intelligences. We’ve got this. We promise.”

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 30/09/2026

Getting ratioed on Musk’s site as a hard-right senator takes some real skill

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."

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Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The greatest playoff performer in Atlanta Hawks history

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've been traveling today, but I understand we've been talking about to do lists and meal prep services and in More Than Words, I just so happen to use meal prep services as an example of how something that seems like it could be useful, doesn't help us build capacity in the long run.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pretty sure Jim VandeHei’s office is just a wall-to-wall display of framed “fell for it again” awards.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OpenAI’s dots have extreme slurp juice energy.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is the thing about automation, as every automation Knower will tell you: you automate the repetitive tasks; the more variability and idiosyncracy there is (aka the real world) the fewer zeroes you get after the decimal on reliability, pretty soon the results are unacceptable

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there are going to be so so so many stories of disasters when agents with full access to users' everything make huge mistakes there is no harness or minder on earth that can catch every single edge case

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.

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Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget

Sure, seems safe.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FWIW my read is that the rw media reaction to the Schmitt-Smith thing is a result of them being lazy and stupid rather than deliberately lying to create a false narrative for their audience -- the hosts here literally don't seem to know what actually happened. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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